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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major 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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