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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education have enabled learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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