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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that 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 institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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