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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning have made it possible for learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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