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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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