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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the 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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