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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in distance learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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