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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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