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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because 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 ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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