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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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