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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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