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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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