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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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