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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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