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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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