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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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