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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecotech Institute to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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