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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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