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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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