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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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