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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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