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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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