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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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