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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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