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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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