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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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