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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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