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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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