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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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