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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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