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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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