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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bangladesh to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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