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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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