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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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