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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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