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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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