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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have enabled humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. 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 massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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