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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in electronic educational technology have empowered humans all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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