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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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