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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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