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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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