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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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