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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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