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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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