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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews 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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