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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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