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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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