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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This gripping new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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