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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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