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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. 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 schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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