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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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