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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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