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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology make it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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