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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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