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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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