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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in elearning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually free for learners 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 quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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