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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational ventures. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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