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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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