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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have empowered humans all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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