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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in elearning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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