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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online education have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key 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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