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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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