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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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