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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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