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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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