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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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