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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education have empowered students all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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