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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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