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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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