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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online education are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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