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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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