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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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