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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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