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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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