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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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