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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Maldives to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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