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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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