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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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