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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Trainers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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