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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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