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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the key 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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