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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning enable humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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