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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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