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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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