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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in distance learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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