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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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