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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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