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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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