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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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