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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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