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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in electronic education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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