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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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