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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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