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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in electronic education technology are empowering students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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