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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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