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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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