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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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