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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all over 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. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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