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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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