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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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