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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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