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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education ventures. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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