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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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