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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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