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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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