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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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