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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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