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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are making it possible for students in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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