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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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