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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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