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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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