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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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