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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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