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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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