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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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