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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines 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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