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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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