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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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