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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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