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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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