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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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