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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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