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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education ventures. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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