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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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