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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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