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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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