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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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