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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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