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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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