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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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