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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Grenada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these compelling new open education undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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