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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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