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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part 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. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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