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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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