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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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