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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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