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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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