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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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