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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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