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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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