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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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