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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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