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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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