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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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