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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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