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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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