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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online learning have enabled students all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Utah to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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