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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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