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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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