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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have enabled learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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