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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology make it possible for people all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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