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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever 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 organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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