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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Trainers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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