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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning have empowered students all over the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these important new open education endeavours. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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