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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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