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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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