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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic educational technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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