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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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