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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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