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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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