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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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