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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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