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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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