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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online education institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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