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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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