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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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