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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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