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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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