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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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