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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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