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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open educational ventures. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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