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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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