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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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