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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. 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 massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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