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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major 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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