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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. People want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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