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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology enable students all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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