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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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