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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Anguilla to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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