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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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