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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing 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 education issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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