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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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