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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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