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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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