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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online education technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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