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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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