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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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