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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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