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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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