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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education enable learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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