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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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