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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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