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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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