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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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