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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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