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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are considering today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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