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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning 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 teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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