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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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