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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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