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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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