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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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