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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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