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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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