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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational ventures. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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