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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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