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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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