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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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