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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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