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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better grasp these new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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