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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in distance learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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