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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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