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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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