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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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