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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Iraq to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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