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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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