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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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