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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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