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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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