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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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