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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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