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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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