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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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