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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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