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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance 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 certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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