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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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