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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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