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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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