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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these compelling new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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