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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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