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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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