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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines 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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