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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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