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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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