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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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