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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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