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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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