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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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