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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever 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 teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the 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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