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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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