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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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