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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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