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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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