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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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