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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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