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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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