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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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