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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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