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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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