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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners 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 variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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