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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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