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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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