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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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