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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are considering today because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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