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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning have enabled learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. 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. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also studies 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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