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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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