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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education undertakings. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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