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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also examines 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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