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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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