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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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