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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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