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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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