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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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