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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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