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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-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 certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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