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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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