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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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