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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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