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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better understand these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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