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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are considering today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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