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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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