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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning 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 quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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