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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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