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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Students want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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