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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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