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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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