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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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