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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable students in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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