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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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