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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free 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 e-learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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