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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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