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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. 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 educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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