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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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