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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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