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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning are enabling humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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