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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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