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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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