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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in elearning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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