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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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