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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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