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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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