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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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