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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education endeavours. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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