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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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