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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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