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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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