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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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