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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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