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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in elearning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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