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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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