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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational ventures. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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