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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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