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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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