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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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