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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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