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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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