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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this growing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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