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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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