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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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