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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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