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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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