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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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