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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can educators certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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