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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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