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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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