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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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