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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the key 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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