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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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