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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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