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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important 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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