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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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