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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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