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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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