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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in learning technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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