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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have enabled humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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