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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Iraq to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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