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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever 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 stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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