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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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