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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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