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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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