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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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