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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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