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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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