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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology enable students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free 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 a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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