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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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