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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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