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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different 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 participants manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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