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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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