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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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