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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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