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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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