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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education ventures. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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