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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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