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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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