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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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