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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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