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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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