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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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