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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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