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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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