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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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