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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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