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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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