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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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