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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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