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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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