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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major 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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