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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology make it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle 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 organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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