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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open education initiatives. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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