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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in e-learning have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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