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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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