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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major 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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