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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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