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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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