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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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