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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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