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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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