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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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