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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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