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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. People want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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