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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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