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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are considering now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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