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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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