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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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