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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like New Zealand to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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