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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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