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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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