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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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