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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Bosnia and Herzegovina to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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