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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering 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 be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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