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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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