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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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