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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education ventures. People want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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