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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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