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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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