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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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