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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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