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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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