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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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