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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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