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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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