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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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