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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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