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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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