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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these important new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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