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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jarvis Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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