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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these open education endeavours. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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