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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these significant new open education undertakings. Educators want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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