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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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