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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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