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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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