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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines 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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