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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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