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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in electronic education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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