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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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