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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling 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 stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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