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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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