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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better understand these open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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