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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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