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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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