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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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