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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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