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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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