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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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