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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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