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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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