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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning have empowered people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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