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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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