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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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