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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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