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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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