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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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