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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education are enabling humans all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tanzania to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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