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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open education undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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