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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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