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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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