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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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