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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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