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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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