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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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