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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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