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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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