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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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