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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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