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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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