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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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