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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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