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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open education ventures. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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