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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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