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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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