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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the 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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