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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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