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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business 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 participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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