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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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