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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key 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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