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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in learning technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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