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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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