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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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