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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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