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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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