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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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