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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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