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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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