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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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