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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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