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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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