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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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