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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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