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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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