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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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