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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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