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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education are enabling students all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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