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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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