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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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