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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also deals with 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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