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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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