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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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