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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education make it possible for learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews 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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