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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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