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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about 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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