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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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