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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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