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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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