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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand these new open education initiatives. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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