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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning enable students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations must deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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