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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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