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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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