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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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