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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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