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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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