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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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