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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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