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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have empowered learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these compelling new open educational ventures. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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