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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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