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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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