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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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