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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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