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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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