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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key 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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