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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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