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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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