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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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