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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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