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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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