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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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