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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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