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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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