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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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