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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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