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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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