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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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