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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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