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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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