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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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