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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take classes 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. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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