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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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