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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also talks about 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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