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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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