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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education undertakings. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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