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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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