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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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