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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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