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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better grasp these promising new open education initiatives. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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